Benjamin Hance
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Benjamin "Ben" Hance OAM (born 25 July 2000) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer. At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, he won a gold, silver and bronze medal and at the 2024 Paris Paralympic, he won a gold and silver medal .[1][2]
Swimming career
[edit | edit source]He is classified as a S14 swimmer. In 2021, Hance holds the world record for the Men's 100 m Backstroke (S14) by swimming a time of 58.88 (1019 points) at the 2021 Australian Multi-Class Swimming Championships .[3]
At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, Hance won the gold medal in the Men's 100 m backstroke S14 with a personal best time of 57.73. He also won a bronze medal in the Men's 100 m butterfly S14 with a time of 56.90, less than 2 seconds behind the winner, Gabriel Bandeira from Brazil.[4]
At the 2022 World Para Swimming Championships, Madeira,[5] Hance won four medals - gold in the Men's 100m Backstroke S14, silver in Mixed 4 × 100 m freestyle relay S14 and Mixed 4 × 100 m medley relay S14 and bronze in the Men's 200 m Freestyle S14 In the medley he teamed up with Madeleine McTernan, Ricky Betar, and Ruby Storm.[6] They won the silver medal with a time of 3:46.38, just under 6 seconds behind the winners, Great Britain, who set a world record.[7] He did not medal in two other events.
At the 2022 Commonwealth Games, he won the silver medal in the 200 m freestyle S14.[8] At the 2023 World Para Swimming Championships, Manchester, England, he won four medals - 2 gold, one silver and one bronze medal.
In 2023, Hance is coached by Ashley Delaney at St Andrews on the Sunshine Coast. He was previously coached by Nathan Doyle.[9]
At the 2024 Paris Paralympics, he won the gold medal in the Men's 100 m backstroke S14. He broke the world record in the hears with a time of 56.52. He finished fourth in the Men's 100 m butterfly S14. He was a member of the Mixed 4 x 100 m freestyle S14 that won the silver medal.
At the 2025 World Para Swimming Championships in Singapore, he won the gold medal in the Men's 100 m Backstroke S14. [10]
Recognition
[edit | edit source]- 2021 - AIS Discovery of the Year at Swimming Australia Awards [11]
- 2022 – Medal of the Order of Australia for service to sport as a gold medallist at the Tokyo Paralympic Games 2020 [12]
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Ben Hance at Swimming Australia (archive)
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- Benjamin Hance at the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Benjamin Hance at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
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- 2000 births
- Living people
- Paralympic swimmers for Australia
- S14-classified para swimmers
- Australian male backstroke swimmers
- Australian male butterfly swimmers
- Australian male freestyle swimmers
- Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
- Medalists at the World Para Swimming Championships
- Paralympic gold medalists for Australia
- Paralympic silver medalists for Australia
- Paralympic bronze medalists for Australia
- Paralympic medalists in swimming
- Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Swimmers at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists in swimming
- Swimmers at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- 21st-century Australian sportsmen